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Kanji for Flight
The kanji for “flight” is 飛, read hi and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
flight
To fly and leap beyond limits.
9 strokes On reading ヒ (hi) Kun reading とぶ、とばす (tobu, tobasu) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: fly, skip (pages), scatter
Readings used for names on Nazuke: asu, to, hi
In Japan it appears in about 208 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 飛: Astri 飛斗里 · Buffy 羽飛 · Tobias 登梅飛 · Jeremias 平礼海飛 · Cornelius 虹音里飛 · Elias 瑛里飛 · Astrid 飛斗里道 · Elwood 瑛瑠羽飛 · Azrul 飛琉瑠 · Astuti 飛斗天 · Fabian 羽飛杏 · Matthias 満天飛
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